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Paris 2024
Why is Australia picking a fight with the US Olympic swim team?
Australia is looking at a record haul in the pool at the Paris Olympics — but we’re setting ourselves up for a monumental face-plant with the job not yet done.
- by Andrew Webster
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Paris 2024
The USA’s Olympic swimming trials have finished. Australia’s stars have work to do
Five weeks out from the Olympics, we crunch the numbers to see just how Australia’s swimmers are faring against their US rivals.
- by Tom Decent
Why Australia’s No.1-ranked male swimmer isn’t flying with the team to Olympics
Cam McEvoy’s quest to make history in Paris is so important to Swimming Australia that the veteran athlete has been granted a special request.
- by Tom Decent
McKeown stunned as American star breaks world record in Olympic warning
Kaylee McKeown has lost one of her world records after an eye-catching swim from her arch-rival at the US Olympic swimming trials in Indianapolis.
- by Tom Decent
‘We want to kill each other’: Phelps, US stars react to ‘sore losers’ barb
Cate Campbell’s comments from a television interview last year have made their way onto NBC’s prime-time coverage of the USA swimming trials.
- by Tom Decent
How Australia’s swimmers compare to the rest of the world ahead of Olympics
Is the Australian swimming team heading to Paris as good as is being advertised? Here’s a look at the early numbers.
- by Tom Decent
Jack has been to hell and back. Now, finally, she will be an Olympian
Even on a Sunday in mid-2024, when Shayna Jack’s drug ordeal is behind her and she will soon board a plane to Paris, the subject is still enough to draw tears.
- by Emma Kemp
Shayna Jack's emotional moment with coach
Sprinter Shayna Jack, whose life in recent years was rocked by a drugs bombshell, shared a raw and beautiful moment with coach Dean Boxall after qualifying for the Paris Games in the women's 100m freestyle at Australia's Olympic trials.
Australian Paralympic swim team announced
Alexa Leary and Rowan Crothers are among the stars set to compete in the pool at the Paris Paralympics.
‘I had an incredible journey’: Cody Simpson’s Olympic dream is over
Cody Simpson says he can hold his head high after falling short of his quest to become an Olympian.
- by Tom Decent
Cody Simpson reflects on 'amazing journey'
The chart-stopping sensation reflects after falling short in his dream to become an Olympian.